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Troy · ‎September 21, 2019

You want to improve the community? How about getting people to put honest information on your websites regarding various professions? The old information was horrible, and the new update is worse for roof cleaning. I e-mailed TT 1-2 times a year including technical bulletins and the information I sent was ignored, and the information posted is in direct conflict with the roof cleaning technical documents. Considering I sent this info a minimum of 8 times, I have to believe TT doesn't do any research into providing accurate information. so the tools you're providing customers is very misleading. By FAR the bulk of roofs in the US are asphalt shingles, and I have a document from GAF, a major asphalt shingle manufacturer stating they have seen granule loss with as little as 150 PSI, yet your site says to be wary of people using over 3,000 PSI. That tells me TT would rather customers also bid on people pressure washing roofs so TT gets more money from leads than to protect customers from harmful practices. Roof cleaning legally requires 2 people on site while anybody is working on an elevated surface (OSHA calls the second person a safety officer), but yet you say the average cost of roof cleaning is $350. If you think this is a real average, TT is using numbers from people who are cutting corners legally which is skewing the true cost. So if I'm spending $75 minimum on products to clean, about 1/3 of the job total on taxes, thats about $200, leaving $150 to pay myself and my helper for what is usually a 4 hour job minimum, not taking out for things like paying for leads on TT, putting gas in the truck, paying for a website, paying for e-mail, oh, and actually being profitable enough to be able to live. TT says on the roof cleaning page - " Some roof cleaning companies offer discounts if customers get on a regular cleaning schedule, such as once or twice a year. " When I clean a roof using the methods in the roof cleaning technical bulletins, even not using my professional surfactants, 90% of the jobs I do will remain spot free for about 4 years minimum. If someone needs to have their roof cleaned even once a year, the person that cleaned the roof did the job horribly wrong. Your information is a total joke.

Troy · ‎December 03, 2018

I just wish Thumbtack would put more effort into take care of the professionals and our gripes. When I first joined Thumbtack I was paying $4-$11 for bids and Thumbtack allowed a maximum of 5 professionals to respond saying if I won 1 in 10 bids, it worked out to where I was paying roughly 10% of the job to Thumbtack for matching me up with the customers. Now Thumbtack charges $26-$55 for the exact same bids, and allows unlimited numbers of professionals to respond to the customers. So if Thumbtack was aiming for taking ~10% of the job total in the past, how much does Thumbtack state they are taking now? I had to stop bidding on any pressure washing jobs because if I won one in three bids I'd be losing money. It's just pricing gouging.

Troy · ‎July 20, 2018

I sincerely agree JodPhoto. I have a side business I'm trying to grow that covers several items. With the previous Templates, I was able to craft an introduction to potential customers for the exact service they were asking for. Now that we are forced to use our profiles in lieu of our templates, it's not as easy to separate services. I've dropped off of TT for the past month or so because of the changes.

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